Audio: OpenMedia.ca’s comments at the UBB hearing
OpenMedia.ca spoke out against a metered Internet at the CRTC's hearing, which ran from July 11 - 19. Interested in what we had to say? Well you're in luck: Full…
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Geist: Can the CRTC act to promote competition and diversity?
By Michael Geist The CRTC's usage based billing oral hearing concluded yesterday with a final decision expected some time in the fall. This long post focuses on the shift in…
OpenMedia.ca Meets With Another MP: Don Davies, Vancouver-Kingsway
Last Thursday, I sat down with MP Don Davies to talk about four of the key recommendations from Casting an Open Net. These are the four main things OpenMedia.ca is…
CBC covers the usage-based billing (UBB) hearing
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of Canadians signing our online petition, their engagement with Internet openness and…
Mark Coatsworth on the Usage-Based Billing Hearing
Taking on Big Telecom: A Trip to the CRTC's UBB Hearings by Mark Coatsworth for The Torontoist The CRTC began hearings this week to help it decide whether to uphold…
In response to Bissonette: Shaw’s movie service is still problematic, and Bell’s isn’t better
The net neutrality violation that never was OpenMedia.ca put out a press release this morning in response to comments Shaw president Peter Bissonnette provided to the Calgary Herald last night.…
Shaw to turn the Internet into a two-tier service
openmedia_logo.jpg Shaw will shape the Internet to give preference to its own content July 15, 2011 – After presenting a purportedly pr...
FP Tech Desk talks to Michael Geist about the UBB hearing
Audio from FP Tech Desk Check out Financial Post telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon's interview with University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, who has written extensively about the pro-Internet community's…
UBB Hearing Report from the Pro-Internet Community’s Andrew Moore
En français ↓ Andrew Moore, long-time member of the pro-Internet community and OpenMedia.ca's Digital Action Team, gives a video update on the usage-based billing hearings happening this week: read more
Geist: What is so undemocratic about allowing a few companies to control the Net?
By Michael Geist The second day of the CRTC hearing on usage based billing left the Commission with three fairly divergent views on Canadian networks, traffic management, and the wholesale…
NDP post confirms their opposition to invasive online spying bills
The NDP published a blog post today condemning proposed online spying legislation -- known as "Lawful Access" bills C-50, C-51, and C-52. The stated NDP position supports that of over…
The CRTC’s Over-the-top ‘Fact Finding Mission’: Key Submissions
For the second time in two years the CRTC has requested submissions from concerned parties on the increasing prevalence of over-the-top (OTT) services. read more
Marlow: Groups, regulators square off at CRTC hearings
By Iain Marlow for Globe and Mail The second day of crucial CRTC hearings into the future of Internet pricing in Canada continued on Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., with a…
OpenMedia.ca Goes to the UBB Hearing
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of your signing our online petition, your engagement with Internet openness and…
CBC’s Search Engine: Google on Canada’s OTT (online video) fact-finding mission
CBC Search Engine's Jesse Brown interviews Jacob Glick, the Canada Policy Counsel for Google, about the CRTC's "fact finding mission" on Over-The-Top content (e.g. online video): read more
Geist: Bell’s Testimony at the UBB Hearing Shatters the ‘Network Congestion’ Argument
By Michael Geist The CRTC hearing on wholesale usage based billing opened yesterday with Bell leading off in front of a packed room (coverage from the Globe, National Post, Quebecor,…
Postmedia: A look at CRTC Chair Von Finckenstein
By Sarah Schmidt for PostMedia News OTTAWA — When Konrad von Finckenstein was appointed chairman of the CRTC in January 2007, news reports at the time hinted that broadcast and…
UBB Hearing Media Round-Up: Day 1
Prelude | Day 1 | Day 2 To help keep you informed on the CRTC's usage-based billing (Internet metering) hearing, we've decided to use this page to round up all…
Geist: On Internet Metering and Net Neutrality
By Michael Geist The CRTC hearing on usage based billing opens this morning with two of the big players - Bell and Open Media - both slated to appear. Since…
Stop The Meter Comes to Fruition: Canadians Will Engage in Hearing In Historic Numbers
UBB_Meter_101101.png July 11, 2011 – Thousands of Canadians will be tuning into the CRTC hearings on usage-based billing today, during which one of Canada's most prolific citizen engagement org...